The Spark of Youth

When it became clear that the civil rights movement had not quite managed to drag segregation behind the barn and shoot it to death, others stepped in and picked up the fight. SONG created some room to move in the vital crawl spaces across the South in the 1990s, modeling intersectional organizing that would come to full bloom in the 2010s. The Ella Baker Center in Oakland has spent the better part of three decades figuring out how to grow successive generations of youth organizers to redirect public monies toward education, not prison. Youth immigrant organizers have taught the nation to value family emancipation and reunification as an essential right. The Movement for Black Lives and youth water protectors at Standing Rock have shined a brilliant spotlight on the mounting reality of government and corporate authoritarianism—surveillance, beating, shooting, warrantless taps, repeat arrests, mass incarceration. All of these organizations have advanced visions for a just and open society, doing so where adult society has dismally failed. In each case, it has been young people, not corporations or established parties or law enforcement, who pushed the nation a step further toward its self-proclaimed ideal of “liberty and justice for all.”

STRATEGI DAKWAH TUAN GURU SUJARMAN DALAM MENINGKATKAN KEAGAMAAN MASYARAKAT (Studi Kasus Di Dusun Kelambi Desa Pandan Indah)

Da'wah is a form of Islamic mission in spreading and teaching religion, and preaching is carried out or delivered by ulama and preachers to convey Islamic teachings to the public. And in this study, examines the da'wah strategy represented by one of the Guru Teachers and Sujarman Teachers who carry out Islamic da'wah in Kelambi Hamlet, Pandan Indah Village. In this study, researchers used a qualitative method by plunging into the research location in Kelambi Hamlet, Pandan Indah Village. And the data collection process in this study was carried out with several methods, namely the method of interviewing, observing, and documenting. The results and discussion agreed in this study on the da'wah strategy carried out by Mr. Guru Sujarman viz. First, discussing da'wah through early childhood, with the delivery of da'wah material related to Islamic learning and short lectures on the religion of Islam. Second, related to propaganda through the public or adult society, with the delivery of propaganda material related to the (special) and (general). For example, specifically for requesting pilgrims and Koran books of Fikh. While the general ones such as the lecture of spiritual splash and evening remembrance on Friday. However, in every preaching action carried out, of course what must be done against preaching is done, for example in the preaching of Master Sujarman carried out in Kelambi Hamlet, increasing community support in discussing Islamand helping many people in choosing education who are religious or enter pesantren education.

Educare alla legalità per prevenire la devianza

Starting from youngsters' statements of "little trust" in the main established institutions (including government, politics, police, healthcare, Church, education and family), the author delves into the motivations and effects of the widespread mistrust of the new generations towards the adult society. The reasons seem to include the ethical-moral disorientation and the value void characterizing youth nowadays. Young individuals need certainties, rules and limits allowing them to orientate and regulate themselves in an increasingly fast world, with frontiers that are no longer insuperable. The adults have abdicated from their educational responsibilities, in favor of an elusive friend figure (i.e., the parent-friend, the teacher-friend) that has nothing to do with the healthy and physiological asymmetry allowing the child/adolescent to differentiate him/herself from the adult in order to grow up. Deviance, therefore, defined as having a harmful, offensive and abusive conduct, and leading, in the worst case scenario, to delinquency, becomes an expression of discomfort that does not find alternatives for communication. Considered such an emergency, the author offers methodological recommendations and practical tools, such as orientation, counseling, writing cure, in order to promote prevention, favoring education paths to legality, to spread authentic values, sense of justice, responsibility towards others, desire to collaboration and sharing, aiming to a more human and democratic society.

Cultivating Social Capital through Summer Employment Programs

Significant socio-economic shifts, such as the emergence of the so-called ‘knowledge economy’ have transformed the transition from adolescence to adulthood, as youth are expected to garner a considerable amount of personal, cognitive, social, and educational skills in order to successfully enter adult society and prosper within the market economy. An additional determinant of the successful transition of youth into adult society is the availability of social capital through relationships and networks that can provide access to valuable resources and information and contribute to the development of a social identity. Employment programs are a mechanism for providing youth with workforce exposure and skill development in the absence of market opportunities. These programs are also a potential source of social capital, through the exposure to new environments and the development of relationships and networks that can provide resources that youth may not have access to through traditional means. Using a qualitative approach, we explored the perspectives of youth participants in a summer employment program in Southwestern Ontario, Canada. We propose that the opportunity to develop social capital is an under-recognized benefit of employment programs, and may be a particularly important aspect for disadvantaged youth.

Uma interpretação teológica da violência contra a juventude

O artigo trata da violência contra a juventude atual, confrontando-a com dados bíblicos relevantes sobre o tema. Começando pelo sacrifício de Isaac e passando pelos evangelhos, o texto apresenta uma hermenêutica a partir do caldo da violência recebida pela juventude. A sociedade adulta manipula os jovens, culpabilizando-os e transformando-os de vítimas em algozes. A juventude precisa acreditar em si mesma, não se amarrar nas armaduras e ferramentas adultas e inventar suas próprias soluções. Jesus nos mostra que quer os jovens em pé, falando, se relacionando e vivendo. Os cristãos precisam gritar como o anjo para Abraão: Agora já chega! Deus não quer sacrifícios humanos!Abstract: This article deals with the violence on contemporary youth, confronting it with relevant biblical data on the subject. Starting with the sacrifice of Isaac and through the Gospels, the text presents a hermeneutics from the broth of violence received by youth. The adult society manipulates young people blame them and turning them into victims tormentors. The youth needs to believe in herself, not tie in armor and adult tools and come up with their own solutions. Jesus shows us that wants young people standing, talking, relationships and living. Christians need to shout like Angel to Abraham: that’s it! God doesn’t want human sacrifice!Keywords: Young; Violence; Jesus Christ; Bible; Youth Pastoral.

Of Children, Adults, and Tomorrow

Continuing with the discussion of sacrifice and gender that was a major element of the previous chapter, this chapter argues that emotive constructs are moral contracts that both derive from and shape society as a pious community. As such, emotion is related to virtue and is therefore aspirational. In the makeup of the social unit, morale serves as an indicator of the condition and functioning of individual bodies within the group and of the collective disposition to which the group aspires in acknowledgment of morale’s social vitality. Morale becomes linked to aspiration for a better future, one populated by finer individuals, including oneself. As such, the quest for morale becomes imbricated in the desire to shape childhood and to use children to shape adult society. Drawing together the data, methodologies, and analysis of the previous chapters, the final chapter sharpens conclusions concerning the ways in which children stand in for adults in a variety of ways and how adult anxieties and aspirations are projected upon and experienced through children, transforming them into repositories of adult intentionalities. In the process, the visual image becomes the site of the performance, emotion, and affect.

The "subtle violence" Adultized children and educational challenges

The article focuses on the topic of "adultized" children seen as an expression of a "subtle violence" that Western society plays against new generations. After defining the concept of subtle violence, the article analyses those situations in which childhood risks its disappearance and in which children are treated as "little adults". What are the challenges this trend poses to the pedagogical thinking? And which are the trajectories that, starting from both micro and macro analysis, can be pursued so that adult society can guarantee the protection and respect of children rights, first of all, the right to have a childhood? Conclusions try to answer – albeit not exhaustively – to these questions, outlining some epistemological paths in order to overstep the great paradox of a ‘'dumb childhood" and for the recognition of its right to be respectfully cared.

Taken Out of Context: American Teen Sociality in Networked Publics

As social network sites like MySpace and Facebook emerged, American teenagers began adopting them as spaces to mark identity and socialize with peers. Teens leveraged these sites for a wide array of everyday social practices—gossiping, flirting, joking around, sharing information, and simply hanging out. While social network sites were predominantly used by teens as a peer-based social outlet, the unchartered nature of these sites generated fear among adults. This dissertation documents my 2.5-year ethnographic study of American teens’ engagement with social network sites and the ways in which their participation supported and complicated three practices—self-presentation, peer sociality, and negotiating adult society.

Adolescence: Struggling Through the Doldrums

In this talk to London County Council Children’s Department senior staff, Winnicott describes the features of adolescence that he believes are important for this audience of his to attend to. He speaks of each adolescent having to negotiate this age-specific phase, whilst also dealing with the onset of puberty, so as to arrive at adulthood. He is aware that adolescent breakdowns put a strain on society and require toleration and treatment. For Winnicott, three social developments have altered the climate of adolescence: treatment for venereal disease, the availability of contraceptive techniques, and the creation of the atom bomb, all of which affects the relationship between adult society and adolescence. The adolescent is pre-potent, and does not accept false solutions. The real cure for adolescence is the passage of time, and to get through this development stage, there will be a period Winnicott calls the adolescent doldrums.